Kegel

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphonies 3 & 1
Herbert Kegel / Dresdner Philharmonie
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 332 MB | Full Artwork: 48 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Capriccio # SACD 71 008 | Country/Year: Germany 2003
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School

Known in the United States primarily as the conductor of a surefire recording of Orff's Carmina Burana, Herbert Kegel was respected in Europe as a pivotal figure in establishing the works of such individual Modernists as Blacher, Dallapiccola, Dessau, Penderecki, and Nono in the concert hall and on discs. He was one of the first to champion Britten's War Requiem, while his recording of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron was instrumental in keeping this difficult and challenging work before the public…

For too long a gap in the Brilliant Classics catalogue,we are happy to present a superb recording of Brahms’ sacred masterwork, Ein deutsches Requiem. Brahms’ Requiem, written in German and presenting bible texts selected by Brahms himself, was composed after the death of Brahms’ mother, a shattering experience for him. The dark aspects of Death are relieved by music of great tenderness and intimacy.

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphonie Nr. 6 op. 68 (Pastorale)
Dresdner Philharmonie / Herbert Kegel
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 159 MB | Full Artwork: 41 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Capriccio # 10 004 | Country/Year: Germany 1984
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School

Known in the United States primarily as the conductor of a surefire recording of Orff's Carmina Burana, Herbert Kegel was respected in Europe as a pivotal figure in establishing the works of such individual Modernists as Blacher, Dallapiccola, Dessau, Penderecki, and Nono in the concert hall and on discs. He was one of the first to champion Britten's War Requiem, while his recording of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron was instrumental in keeping this difficult and challenging work before the public. In 1977 he was named principal conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic, a post he held until 1985. He committed suicide in Dresden on November 20, 1990.